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Kayvon Thibodeaux To Oregon

So Oregon picks up the highest-rated recruit in its history.

A kid who went to Dorsey and Oaks Christian and doesn’t even have USC in his final four choices. Is Lynn Swann paying attention?

Oregon also has four-star recruits from Mater Dei, Narbonne and Calabasas. And Rivals just ranked the Ducks’ recruiting class at No. 3 nationally. USC is No. 33.

Meanwhile, I talk about USC recruiting below:

9 thoughts on “Kayvon Thibodeaux To Oregon”

  2. I do believe this speaks volumes of where the USC program finds itself directly as a result of the abysmal 5 – 7 record for 2018. The goal of many players is to get to the pros. The odds are not very good but nonetheless if one’s academic skillset are minimal at best than every effort is directed to something, anything that can meet that goal. There are reports of players commenting on the decline in preparation of USC players attending try out camps after the draft.

    This program, a full 10 years ago, was just about to enter into that chamber of horrors because of a selfish player and a corrupt enforcement agency full of envy that were determined to destroy USC. Never mind what happened elsewhere later at: PA St, MI St, NC, Baylor or allowing no ‘digging’ into other scandals that ‘the princess’ had under Kelly.

    Haden is as culpable for this mess as the NCAA was – his rolling over to Emmert, his making no effort to defend USC his indifference to what football has morphed into due to his awful coaching picks and now compounded by that ‘househand’ Swann who though nothing in giving as inept a coach as has ever headed a top tier legacy program – Clay Helton.

    Why would anyone intent on playing for a good squad come to USC?

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  4. I don’t know if it is this easy, but I do think that USC does not have an identity while a great programs across America do: Alabama, tough in the trenches, menacing defense; Ohio St. talented and organized; Stanford, smart and tough and disciplined etc. USC has a reputation of producing great wideouts. This in and of itself is not bad if it is coupled with another attribute. Unfortunately, this is USC’s identity right now- athletic but will fold when the going gets tough. Top recruits will not come if this does not change.

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    1. Stanford? Really? Every year there is talk of them ‘rising’ to ‘prominence’. Regardless of their recent domination of USC et. al. they are still the most overrated program in the country. Shaw should have and could have made a real ‘separation, esp. with Helton at USC, and hasn’t and he’s the best they’ve had even over Harbaugh and way back past Ralston. Stanford hasn’t contended for a national title since 1940.

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      1. Unlike SC, the mandate at Stanford has never been to only win the national championship—they really don’t care that much about football, which makes their recent victories over SC all the more tough to take!

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  5. USC might not have a player drafted in the first 4 rounds of the draft.

    Development is an issue and recruits and their parents are obviously noticing.

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      1. I will not have you badmouth Helton. He was hired by the best AD in the history of college sports, who did the hiring while busy running (into the ground) a charitable foundation. You think that’s easy to do? You think the AD’s at ‘Bama and tOSU could pull something like that off? Not in a million years.

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